Veronique Oldham

Assistant Professor of Oceanography at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography

Vero began her scientific career as a student of chemistry, in Toronto, Ontario Canada. After working in and around lakes and forests, Vero took to the seas in Bermuda, working as a research technician on the chemistry of metals in seawater. There, Vero cemented a desire to pursue academic research in the field of Chemical Oceanography. Vero completed her PhD in oceanography at the University of Delaware, then a Post-Doctoral Scholarship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, before starting as an Assistant Professor of Oceanography at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Today, Vero researches reactions at zones of intense redox chemistry like the coastal ocean, hydrothermal vents and polar systems. When she’s not out snooping for cool chemistry, Vero is out at the beach with her corgi Mortadella trying to learn to surf, or having a beer somewhere new!